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28 December 2011

Humor: Rick Santorum Office Next Door To Gay Leather Bar

Mr. Santorum is, sadly, best known by the redefinition of his name (Google Santorum if you are not at work) by fans of Dan Savage's weekly column. The history of the redefinition, from the history link of the not-work-friendly site begins

In April 2003, Republican senator Rick Santorum made some asinine
comments in defense of laws banning gay sex. While this in itself may
seem unremarkable, many people were amazed at how much detail he went into. Rick wasn't satisfied to call it 'degenerate' and move on. He really, really wanted to talk about sex, so he told the Associated Press: "If
the Supreme Court says that you have a right to consensual sex within
your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." Well, little did he know that two months later the Supreme Court would rule anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional... whoops!

Since then, Mr. Santorum has continued to double down on his tirade against homosexuals. Here's one example from last month.

Rick Santorum believes that gay marriage could doom the U.S.

"We have to fight the battles in the states," he said Saturday night at Iowa's Thanksgiving Family Forum (hat tip: ThinkProgress).
"We cannot defer. We can't say, 'The 10th Amendment, they can do what
they want.' This is too important for that. There's a basic and central
value. The family is the bedrock of our society. Unless we protect it
with the institution of marriage, our country will fall."

So, it is quite ironic that the National Memo published a tidbit about Mr. Santorum's Scranton senatorial office.

But more important than fiery rhetoric is his experience on the
ground, where he, or at least his staffers, have seen the consequences
of the gay agenda up close. After he made those comments in 2003,
reporters discovered that his Scranton office at 527 Linden Street was
located a door away from The Silhouette Lounge, a gay leather bar that
had won local awards. A bartender named Johnny reportedly delivered a
message for the Senator, according to a news report published in The Hill: "Come on over sometime."

Santorum doesn't talk much about his official stay near the leather
bar, especially now that the two venues in question have disappeared
from the map.

The thought of Rick Santorum in leather is more than a little disturbing. Even next to leather ... ick!